• apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    This looks a lot less like diamagnetism than the previous videos, but is still using way larger magnets than they should need; still very sceptical.

    Also a reminder to anybody reading a news article about this: LK99 is likely a ceramic, so the attributes specifically for metallic superconductors would not apply.

    • schroedingershat@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Assuming for a moment it is real and works and this class of material is useful for transmitting current with 0 resistance or making magnets, many attributes of other ceramic superconductors also shouldn’t apply given the theory that predicted it says it’s not one of those either.

      This also leads to a very very stupid reactionary semantic argument you’ll start seeing more and more over the coming weeks.

      • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        I’m honestly more worried about science communicators projecting life-changing properties onto it because “superconductor”, and then the public coming away with “these scientists are all hyperbolic hacks”.